Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking for cats...
Seldom does Senator Huey Pierce Long publicly admit that anyone has told him to "go to Hell." Yet last week he announced the fact with evident delight. His own man, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, had, he said, given him that unpleasant consignment...
...Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black...
...Kisses," who submitted 27 other poems, cried out: As the powerful wind pushes the cliffs And polishes down the canyons, Tears from sage and greasewood Their sharp and bitter odor, Flings sand in fiendish figures-I-thrill! I am mad! I am here! Take me-wild-drunk with delight...
...Harvardman Campbell see TIME, Feb. 5, delight himself further with a "nice long timely' essay" on Harvard's new president, Dr. James Bryant Conant...